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Read all about the challenges of forgery and period typography in this marvelous article by Leah Spencer on working as a designer for film and TV!
A feast for friends of #signage, #transit, old grots and Mrs #Maisel https://www.alphabettes.org/type-revival-for-film-tv/
Best stories about the central lettering record with @graphicgirl right now! Come join
Oops, sorry, that was released end of December but while you have already been in cookie dough mode, you may have also missed Crushual by @boom
https://www.futurefonts.xyz/boom/crushual
Crushual is a Thai-Latin typeface. It is Boom–Promphans’s graduation project from Type Media 2021-2022. The typeface was started from wanting to explore the possibilities of both scripts at its extreme of Condensed Black. Working on the limitation of Latin Low contrast slab serif and Looped Thai while keeping the style and texture consistency between the two is a big challenge. Crushual is a chubby typeface designed to be used in big and casual sizes, like its name, which combines the words Crushed and Casual.
Also from Tien-Min Liao / Typeji comes Looklyn, an unusual, expressive Slab.
Looklyn is an affable slab with a non-tradition serif weight distribution. Its extra-thin vertical serifs balance the weight of the body stroke, which creates a nice thick-and-thin rhythm that some other slab typefaces don’t usually have. The skeleton is geometric and structural, while the open diagonals, such as A, K, V, W, Y, etc are based on handwritten strokes. This hybrid of an architectural skeleton and humanist characteristic gives the typeface a contemporary yet approachable quality. Looklyn is available in five weights—Light, Book, Medium, Bold, and Black. The corresponding italics are currently under development and will be released in the next update.
Fantasia Type / Franziska Weitgruber added fun and bubbly Baustraße to Futurefonts.
Baustraße is a typeface in dialogue with the history of the production and dissemination of the Bauhaus typography. Rather than being conceived as a revival project linked to the experiments conducted in particular by Herbert Bayer in the Dessau school in the mid-Twenties, the typeface is a hybrid of the numerous Bauhaus style designs that emerged between the Sixties and Nineties, in the years of photocomposition and early desktop publishing. A century after the birth of Bauhaus, Baustraße attempts to reflect on the birth of a style, its canonization and its diffusion into the real world. Therefore, Baustraße is a design that seeks the spirit of Bauhaus outside the ‘haus’ and in the ‘straße’.
Tien-Min Liao (Typeji) added a stencil version to her already quite progressed Min Sans to Futurefonts. https://www.futurefonts.xyz/typeji/min-sans-stencil
https://www.futurefonts.xyz/typeji/min-sans
Min Sans is a modern high-contrast sans serif typeface. The typeface's sharp notch and clean contour exude a strong personality and a contemporary look, while its calligraphy-inspired aesthetic adds a touch of warmth and elegance. It’s designed to be used as titles and headlines. The stencil version is introduced in 2023 and released as a new family on FufureFonts. It brings an urban and industrial look to Min Sans.
Joana Correia has released a display companion to her typefamily Loretta at her own foundry Novatype https://novatypefoundry.com/fonts/loretta-display/
